Heinrich Walbe

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Heinrich Rudolf Walbe (born March 6, 1865 in Lauban , Lower Silesia, † January 20, 1954 in Heppenheim ) was a German architect , construction officer , university professor and preservationist .

Life

Heinrich Walbe was born in Lauban in Upper Lusatia in Lower Silesia as the son of the court assessor Ernst Walbe and his wife Anna Walbe. Meissner born. His father died just three years after he was born. He attended the Pforta state school . and received the school leaving certificate in 1884. From 1884 to 1889 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Aachen . He then did his military service as a one-year volunteer in Munich. Heinrich Walbe decided on a career as a construction clerk and completed his legal clerkship as a government construction manager in Bad Nauheim and Cologne from 1890 to 1894 . After passing the 2nd state examination, he worked as a government builder ( Assessor ) in Cologne . He was later transferred to Sorau as a district building inspector .

Heinrich Walbe worked for a short time as a town planning inspector in the municipal building administration of the city of Halle (Saale) . From April 1, 1896, he worked as an architect in the Knoch & Kallmeyer office in Halle. In the winter semester of 1902 he was appointed full professor of architecture III at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he succeeded Erwin Marx . At the same time he was initially acting and from 1903 monument curator of the province of Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Walbe was dean of the architecture faculty from 1913 to 1916 and from 1928 to 1930 , and rector of the university from 1907 to 1909 and from 1920 to 1921 . From 1912 at the latest he was a member of the German Werkbund .

From 1912 to 1920 he built the administrative building of the chemical company Merck on Frankfurter Strasse in Darmstadt. In 1918 he designed the memorial for the fallen members of the Technical University of Darmstadt, which was erected in the university stadium. For the university he was active as an architect in the new construction of the gerbereichemie for Edmund Stiasny , the adjacent test tannery and the high-voltage laboratory for Waldemar Petersen , both built in 1922/1923.

Numerous church buildings followed in the 1920s. Since 1924, Walbe was also responsible for the southern part of the Starkenburg province as a monument conservator .

After the death of Friedrich Pützer (1922), Walbe became consistorial architect of the Evangelical Church in Hesse . At the request of Gustav Krüger (theologian) he received an honorary theological doctorate (as Dr. theol. Hc) from the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in December 1932 due to his special services in church building .

After turbulent arguments at the architecture faculty after the NSDAP came to power in Darmstadt, the capital of the then people's state of Hesse , Heinrich Walbe was retired on October 16, 1933 at the age of 68 "at his request". It cannot be ruled out that Walbe's application was a result of the Lieser affair in the university's architecture department in spring 1933.

In retirement, Walbe dealt intensively with questions relating to the half-timbered structure in historical buildings. This resulted in his standard work The Hessian-Franconian Framework in 1942 .

Heinrich Walbe last lived in an old people's and nursing home in Heppenheim. He died there in January 1954 at the age of 88. He had been with Mathilde Walbe since 1895. Meissner married. From this marriage three sons were born. Kurt Walbe (* 1898) also studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and later became town planning officer in Wittenberg and Friedberg (Hesse) . The youngest son Wolfgang Walbe (1900–1945) was a district judge in Nördlingen. He died in the last days of World War II. One son died as a soldier in World War I.

Heinrich Walbe was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: ID 192).

Honors

plant

buildings

  • 1897–1899: Water tower north in Halle (Saale) (together with Ewald Genzmer )
  • 1905: House for the Burkhard family in Darmstadt, Am Erlenberg 4
  • after 1904: semi-detached house for Wilhelm and Theodor Kleinschmidt in Darmstadt, Am Erlenberg 6/8
  • 1908: Single-family house (model house) at the Hessian State Exhibition in 1908 in Darmstadt, on Mathildenhöhe
  • 1912: Friedrich's house in Darmstadt, Roquetteweg 34
  • 1919: War memorial in the university stadium in Darmstadt, Lichtwiesenweg
  • after 1919: War memorial in Bad Wimpfen
  • 1922/1923: Institute for Gerbereichemie of the Technical University Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstrasse
  • 1922/1923: High-voltage laboratory of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstrasse
  • 1925–1926: Protestant Gustav Adolf Chapel in Ober-Mörlen
  • 1926–1927: Protestant Gustav Adolf Church in Gau-Algesheim
  • 1933: Renovation of the Protestant Martinskirche in Darmstadt

Fonts

  • About building regulations. Speech to celebrate the birthday of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and near the Rhine on November 25, 1902 in the auditorium of the Grand Ducal Technical University in Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1902.
  • The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1919-1938. (in several volumes)
    • Arnsburg monastery with Altenburg. 1919.
  • Building construction in stone. BG Teubner , Leipzig 1920.
  • The new building of the Chemical Institute of the University of Frankfurt aM In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 72, 1922, pp. 116–126 ( digitized version of the central and regional library in Berlin ).
  • The Hessian-Franconian half-timbered house. (= Schriften des Volks- und Heimatforschung , Volume 4.) Wittich, Darmstadt 1942. / extended edition, 1954.

literature

  • Otto Müller: Heinrich Walbe. In: Bulletin of the Historical Association for Hesse , born in 1954, p. 123 f.
  • Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1977, p. 220.
  • Carlo Schneider: The cemeteries in Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1991, p. 40.
  • Melanie Hanel: Normality under exceptional conditions: the TH Darmstadt under National Socialism , Carlo & Karin Giersch Foundation , WBG , Darmstadt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-26640-1 , dissertation at the TH Darmstadt 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dressler's Art Handbook , 9th edition, Volume 2. Berlin 1930, p. 1059 (key information on biography)
  2. ↑ List of members of the German Werkbund 1912
  3. ^ Project: Technical University of Darmstadt and National Socialism
  4. ^ TU Darmstadt Late coming to terms with the Nazi past
personal data
SURNAME Walbe, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walbe, Heinrich Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, university professor and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauban , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1954
Place of death Heppenheim